Dr Catherine Chittleborough

I am an epidemiologist in the BetterStart Child Health and Development Research Group within the School of Public Health. I returned to the University of Adelaide in 2011 following a decade with SA Health and a two-year postdoctoral position in the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol.
My research focuses on how we can reduce inequalities in, and improve overall population levels of, child health and development, and also whether we can identify children who are likely to have poor development, for better targeting of family support programs. I have an interest in applying causal epidemiological techniques to these questions and making use of population data from longitudinal cohorts and data linkage studies. I also teach undergraduate public health and epidemiology.

Catherine Chittleborough is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health, University of Adelaide. She started here as a postdoctoral researcher in 2011 after spending two years as a research associate in the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol in the UK. Prior to that Cathy was an epidemiologist with SA Health for a decade, where her work focused on population health surveillance and chronic disease epidemiology, including diabetes, respiratory conditions, mental health and obesity. Cathy was awarded her PhD in August 2009, which examined the role of a life course approach to measuring socioeconomic position in population health surveillance systems. Cathy's postdoctoral work has focused on prediction of child and maternal outcomes based on factors measured in pregnancy, and the development of social, behavioural and physiological risk profiles over the life course.

Wilson, D., Taylor, A., & Chittleborough, C. (2001). The Second Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) Forum: The state of play of CATI survey methods in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 25(3), 272-274.DOIScopus10WoS5Europe PMC4

Wittwer, T., Crabb, S., Milazzo, A., Tooher, R., & Chittleborough, C. (2014). Small Groups Discovering Public Health Interventions. Poster session presented at the meeting of CAPHIA Public Health Teaching And Learning Forum. The University Club of Western Australia.

2014

Wittwer, T., Crabb, S., Milazzo, A., Tooher, R., & Chittleborough, C. (2014). Small Groups Discovering Public Health Interventions. Poster session presented at the meeting of CAPHIA Public Health Teaching And Learning Forum. The University Club of Western Australia.

2014

Laurence, C., Lorimer, M., Chittleborough, C., Parrella, A., & Karnon, J. (2014). Developing and testing a needs-based approach to determining the future level of service by family practitioners in South Australia. Poster session presented at the meeting of 42nd North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Meeting. New York.

Sawyer, A., Chittleborough, C. R., Mittinty, N. M., Sawyer, M., & Lynch, J. (2012). The importance of children’s development of self-regulation in early life for later school readiness and academic achievement. Poster session presented at the meeting of The 11th Australian Conference for Personality and Individual Differences. Melbourne.

2012

Sawyer, A., Chittleborough, C. R., Lawlor, D., Sawyer, M., Mittinty, N. M., & Lynch, J. (2012). The role of attention and emotion regulation in school readiness and school performance. Poster session presented at the meeting of Population Health Congress. Adelaide.

Chittleborough, C. R., Searle, A., & Lynch, J. (2014). Can linked data help to better target family support programs for child health and development? (Research Series 2014-03). Adelaide: School of Population Health, The University of Adelaide.